Case Study McLaren Group

Founded by successful driver Bruce McLaren in 1963, McLaren has been at the forefront of the and motor racing for over four decades. Over the years, McLaren has grown to be more than just a racing team, with three core business units – McLaren Racing, McLaren Automotive, and McLaren Applied – that need protecting.

Adapting to the Evolving Threat Landscape Autonomous Protection At a Glance From stealthy exfiltration of world-leading IP to machine- McLaren turned to self-learning AI to detect and investigate attacks capable of encrypting devices in seconds, a threats in real time, without the use of rules, signatures, or ✔ Dynamic and decentralized cyber-attack could be the difference between McLaren prior assumptions. workforce winning and losing. The protection of sensitive data – often Darktrace immediately began learning the normal ‘patterns shared with trusted partners and key suppliers – is therefore ✔ Targeted by tailored and of life’ for every user and device in the organization’s digital paramount. sophisticated email attacks ecosystem. By learning what is ‘self’, Darktrace’s Immune McLaren’s workforce has always been incredibly dynamic, System is able to detect subtle deviations indicative of ✔ Turned to AI to protect every with the team accustomed to effectively setting up remote a cyber-threat – from SaaS account takeover and data corner of the business trackside offices in different parts of every exfiltration to zero-day malware and nation-state attacks. weekend. The widespread move to remote working further escalated the organization’s reliance on cloud and SaaS tools such as Dropbox and Microsoft Teams. Prior to Darktrace, “Darktrace acts autonomously, these environments were protected by a disparate collection freeing up our team to work on of siloed point solutions that rely on pre-defining malicious high-level tasks.” behavior to spot future threats. Principal Digital Architect, The security team therefore required a comprehensive and McLaren Racing unified cyber security platform capable of protecting every corner of the business. From cloud and SaaS applications to email, McLaren needed a solution that was capable of stopping novel threats no matter where they appeared. Darktrace’s AI seamlessly integrates with other tools A Self-Healing Inbox via an open and extensible architecture, enhancing Like every organization, McLaren are faced with a the value of McLaren’s existing security stack and “Darktrace has given us a lot of range of email threats, from social engineering to extending visibility across the entire digital ecosystem. confidence this year spotting things phishing and account takeover. In particular, there By having AI autonomously fight back against attacks we wouldn’t normally as humans.” was a concern about sophisticated spear phishing wherever they are, McLaren’s security team can attacks targeting C-Level executives. With the Principal Digital Architect, McLaren Racing spend more of their valuable time on race weekends of email attacks surging, McLaren decided to extend innovating rather than responding to every alert. “We its AI-based security system to protect its Microsoft don’t send cars out on the track unless we can see 365 environment and safeguard its workforce from that telemetry so it’s a critical piece of infrastructure malicious emails using Antigena Email. for us and it’s super important,” says Edward Green, Principal Digital Architect, McLaren Racing. Antigena Email understands the patterns of communication between every email user, using the same self-learning, AI-powered approach to detect subtle indicators of an attack. Rather than “I was amazed at how quickly we could measuring inbound e mails against pre-defined get AI learning how we normally behave.” rules and signatures, Darktrace analyzes emails in Principal Digital Architect, McLaren Racing context, containing novel and sophisticated attacks while allowing normal business to continue without disruption. Darktrace’s Threat Visualizer surfaces threats across As Green explains, “We were able to see results in cloud, SaaS, email, and the corporate network days. The volume of phishing emails reported by users fell substantially, and over time, the regular reviews of Antigena Email’s actions has led us to discover many phishing campaigns that we were previously unaware of.” For More Information

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